YSN-SU Mission, Vision, and Commitment to Antiracism
Mission
The mission of the YSN-SU is to provide a safe, interactive, and innovative student-centered environment across the continuum of education. Simulation at YSN promotes clinical competence, self-confidence, reflective practice, teamwork, intra/inter-professional collaboration and prepares interdisciplinary learners to deliver care in a complex and diverse healthcare environment.
Vision
The vision of the YSN-SU aspires to equip nurse educators with innovative options for meeting the diverse learning needs of students to create competent nurses, advanced nurse practitioners, and midwives. We prepare our students to excel in the complex healthcare environment of the 21st century and facilitate better health for all people.
Values
The YSN-SU values are consistent with the Yale School of Nursing’s values. We are community that holds an expansive view of health and believes that access to high quality patient‐centered health care is a social right, not a privilege. In our intellectual and clinical work, we value integrity, dignity, rigor, curiosity, and excellence. Mindful of our traditions, as well as those of Yale University, we emphasize innovation grounded in creativity and the integration of education, scholarship, practice, and policy in service of social justice and health equity. Respect for diversity of thought, ideas, and opinions of others, guides all of our work. We value the wise use of resources. We are committed to interprofessional education, research, and practice and mentorship of the next generation of leaders. We strive to create an environment for study that is caring and supports openness and transparency.
Commitment to Antiracism
To achieve better health for all people, we acknowledge White supremacy as an insidious, toxic, and expansive system that must be renounced, including within our own school. We also acknowledge that race is not a biological category, but rather a socially constructed classification scheme without genetic significance. We reject the use of race as a proxy to make clinical predictions and support racial terminology in the biological sciences only as a political or socioeconomic category to study racism and the structural inequities that produce health disparities in historically marginalized, underrepresented, and underserved people.